About Alina Ivanova
Alina Petrovna Ivanova (Russian: Алина Петровна Иванова; born 16 March 1969 in Kildishevo, Yadrinsky District, Chuvash ASSR) is a retired Russian long-distance athlete who competed in race walking and road running. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the women's 10 km walk at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. She represented the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She changed to the marathon run later in her career and was a two-time winner at both the Prague International Marathon (2000 & 2006) and the Dublin Marathon (2006 & 2007).
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